dannyd

We are on the same ball park here ?? Its a L322 model, the bmw 4.4 engine`d one..............Ashcrofts quoted over 2k for rebuild as the torque converter is apparently £900 alone and the fluids are over £125 ish Dan

Spoke to Ashcrofts....and a few others......All with same outcome..............New box/rebuild time..................... Gone in today..£2365 all in for rebuild with usual guarantees/warranty etc........The garage in questiuon came recommended by Mansfield 4x4 and my local Range Rover Stealer as well as my local BMW Stealer as I also priced fluids from them .................... Oh well not bad in a couple of months ownership...New Header Tank and now Rebuild of Gearbox !! Still hopefully when I get it back it may last a while...............But tbh my faith is somewhat dented now............. Thanks for all the replies anyhow..........great to have some input from other members... Dan

Thanks again for the replies..... The concerns I have are that the box is apparently "filled for life" so should according to Land Rover does not need to be drained and refilled ? The fluid was cooked when I tried to get her home, as I left town it was hilly and think all the stop start at lights/junctions upset her considerably as trying to pull away on incline in third gear is responsible for ther overheated transmission......... Another point....there is no dipstick as these boxes are not meant to need fluids............. It can be done but at present I do not actually know if the fluid is low or not.......and I guess I do not just want to add good fluid to cooked fluid so I will need to empty the whole lot and if some stays in the transfer box wont this technically be knackered from the cooking and mix and contaminate the new fluid ?? Thanks Dan

Thanks for the replies and advice.... Now we drained a small amount out of box and the fluid has been burned, also there is a slight hint of metallic substance in the fluid , now I guess you would expect some in the fluid from the box but how much I am not sure. The crazy thing is handbook and Land Rover confirm the box is filled for life and needs no topping up/or and draining and changing !!! Yet they sell the fluid for it snd it is in the region of £11.50 plus VAT a litre !! No one at my two nearest dealers could give me an amout it would hold as they say there is nothing in any books as its filled for life and maintenance free, however a local specialist claims its in the region of 10 litres...... So my predicament (sp) do I spend somewhere in region of £200 on fluid change and take big gamble, or do I put £200 towards £2k I been quoted to build box again ??? What with this and having my header tank split and need replacing within first 6 weeks or so of ownership I am mildly upset with the reliability so far to say the least however it is a fantastic car, when running !

Hi there, New member here with a slight, well could be quite an expensive problem. I would greatly appreciate any comments or advice on the issue I am having . Ok where do I start…… I have owned my 52 plate Range Rover 4.4 Petrol Vogue for about 6 weeks now and on the whole I totally love it !!! However today I was about three hours into my journey when I needed to accelarate to move round a praked car, as I did apply the throttle the car just revved and did not pull, and as revs dropped it seemed to slip into gear and then accelerate……..It did this once more before I reached my destination…. As I left to return home it did this once more and then seemed ok, until about ten minutes later when it seemed sluggish away from lights…. I realised it was pulling away in what seemed to be third and would not select lower gears and I could not do anything with the manual side of the gearbox either……A little way up road the dash display warned of transmission overheat so I stopped, this was probably due to fact I was leaving the town and it was hilly with lots of pulling away from lights uphill !! I left car for about 35 mins and restarted, she selected first and started to pull when she started slipping before selecting second and doing the same. She then selected third and the message fail safe programme was displayed and the car stayed in third and fourth all way home as I was now on motorway and dual carriageway…… Now I was told could be fluids or could be hydraulic clutches in box gone and had several price scenarios…… I went outside this evening to put car on drive having left it in road to cool down for about 5 hours… Now when started it drove down road fine, changed all gears fine and even drove and selected gears manually fine….. Now surely if clutches were gone ot anything was broke in box would it not be like that all the time and am I right in then hoping this could be down to low fluid that got hot on the long journey and thinned out, that is now probably cooked and will need a change asap to salvage my box ??? Again any advice would be great and apologies for long post PS Car has done 73k with FLRSH and had the dif recall done about two weeks ago Thanks Dan J